Meghan Markle turned heads when she launched her lifestyle brand and Netflix show in early 2025.
Meghan took fans inside her kitchen, garden and home with Netflix’s With Love, Meghan series. She brought along celebrity friends Mindy Kaling and Abigail Spencer for tea parties, sleepovers, cooking and crafting.
Shortly before the series premiered in March 2025, Meghan announced the rebrand of her American Riviera Orchard food line — now called As Ever. While the limited collection, made up of jams, honey and tea, sold out in record time, it had mixed reviews in celebrity circles.
The community of lifestyle gurus such as Martha Stewart and Gwyneth Paltrow have been noticeably vocal about Meghan’s foray into the space.
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“I don’t know Meghan and [Prince] Harry,” Paltrow said in an interview with Vanity Fair published in March 2025. “I mean, I’ve met Meghan, who seems really lovely, but I don’t know her at all.”
The Goop founder said she had no hard feelings about Meghan’s lifestyle brand launch, teasing, “Maybe I’ll try to get through their security detail and bring them a pie.”
Scroll down to see what some of your favorite lifestyle mavens and stars have said about Meghan’s latest ventures:
Martha Stewart
Stewart is the queen of the lifestyle market, with many aspiring to be the next version of her. So, what does she think about Meghan’s show? “Has it started?” Stewart asked when asked by Access Hollywood about the series in April 2025.
While Stewart is late to the party, she said, “I’ll watch an episode and see how she does,” adding that she was “curious.”
Sandra Lee
Lee exclusively told Us Weekly in March 2025 that she’s a fan of the “beautifully filmed” With Love, Meghan. “I was actually surprised about the backlash to the show. It didn’t seem fair,” she said.
The Food Network star explained, “[I’ve been] in the lifestyle space for years. We have mixed relatable and unrepeatable elements [too].”
“Megan’s show is very well done [and] beautifully filmed,” Lee gushed to Us. “[It has] calming, serene content — and she even used my trick of using a plastic bag as a piping bag for her cake! I’m happy for her. Her crew is doing a great job.”
Gwyneth Paltrow
Paltrow told Vanity Fair in March 2025 that she had not seen the trailer for Meghan’s show, but she wasn’t worried about her As Ever brand. “[When] there’s noise about certain women in the culture, I do have, always, a strong instinct to stand up for them,” Paltrow said.
The Clean Plate author noted, “I was raised to see other women as friends, not foes. I think there’s always more than enough to go around. Everybody deserves an attempt at everything that they want to try.”
Later that month, fans thought Paltrow took a jab at Meghan when she uploaded a Tracy Anderson cooking video to the Goop profile. “Hi, I’m Tracy Anderson, welcome to my actual kitchen,” Anderson said in the video, which some thought was a dig at Meghan, who revealed her cooking videos were not filmed at her and Harry’s Montecito home.
Paltrow and Meghan later squashed the beef rumors by appearing in an Instagram Q&A together. “I genuinely do not understand this at all whatsoever,” Paltrow said in the March 2025 video, before panning to Meghan, who was eating a piece of pie at her kitchen table.
In April 2025, Paltrow once again said she and Meghan had no qualms during an appearance on “The World’s First Podcast With Erin & Sara Foster” podcast. “Again, I wish Meghan nothing but the best,” the actress said. “Like, it’s so great what she’s doing. I’m proud of her. Every woman deserves to go into anything they want to do.”
Bethenny Frankel
Frankel gained fame for her time on The Real Housewives of New York City, but she’s a businesswoman and lifestyle guru first. (She owns Skinnygirl, which began with the Skinnygirl Margarita and is now made up of coffees, teas, salad dressings and popcorn.)
The former Housewife slammed Meghan’s rebrand in February 2025, calling it an “identity issue.” Frankel claimed in a TikTok video that the Duchess of Sussex chose to change the name to make her brand “more natural” and “unfiltered” with “fresh out of bed content” after she was criticized as unrelatable for the originally “pristine” presentation of American Riviera Orchard.
“It’s hard for people to be authentic when they’re not really sure on their own who they are or what it is, and you can never let the market decide what you do or what you sell or what you produce,” Frankel quipped.
She added that Meghan “can’t win for losing” and she and Harry can’t “get their footing” after leaving the monarchy in 2020. “I think it’s an identity and an authenticity issue,” Frankel concluded.
Chrissy Teigen
While Teigen began her career as a model, she launched herself into the culinary world with her first cookbook, 2016’s Cravings. She has since released her own line of cookware, bakeware and baking mixes.
After Meghan launched her own product line, Teigen gave it her stamp of approval, especially the raspberry spread.
“We jammin!! This might have been one of the best bites we’ve had all year,” Teigen wrote via Instagram in April 2024, when the jam was made under Meghan’s American Riviera Orchard label. “All we used is some rustic bread, salted butter, triple cream brie, thick cut bacon and some @americanrivieraorchard jam! took about 8 mins total and made us happy for the entire weekend. 🤍.”
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